different between sentimental vs passionate

English

Etymology

sentiment +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?nti?m?ntl?/
• Hyphenation: sen?ti?men?tal

Adjective

sentimental (comparative more sentimental, superlative most sentimental)

1. Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.
   • 2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring.

2. Derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment.
3. Romantic.

Quotations

• 1885: Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado,

  Are you in sentimental mood?

  I'll sigh with you.

• 1944: Doris Day, Sentimental Journey,

  Gonna take a Sentimental Journey,

  Gonna set my heart at ease.

  Gonna make a Sentimental Journey,

  to renew old memories.

Antonyms

• unsentimental

Derived terms

• sentimentalism
• sentimentality
• sentimentally

Translations

Anagrams

• entailments

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?n.ti.m?n?tal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sen.ti.men?tal/

Adjective

sentimental (masculine and feminine plural sentimentals)

1. sentimental

Derived terms

• sentimentalisme
• sentimentalitat
• sentimentalment

Related terms

• sentiment

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.ti.m??.tal/
• Homophones: sentimentale, sentimentales

Adjective

sentimental (feminine singular sentimentale, masculine plural sentimentaux, feminine plural sentimentales)

1. sentimental

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Adjective

sentimental m or f (plural sentimentais)

1. sentimental

Derived terms

• sentimentalidade
• sentimentalismo
• sentimentalmente

Related terms

• sentimento

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z?ntim?n?ta?l/

Adjective

sentimental (comparative sentimentaler, superlative am sentimentalsten)

1. sentimental

Declension

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English sentimental, ultimately from Latin sentimentum.

Adjective

sentimental (neuter singular sentimentalt, definite singular and plural sentimentale)

1. sentimental

Antonyms

• usentimental

References

• “sentimental” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English sentimental, ultimately from Latin sentimentum.

Adjective

sentimental (neuter singular sentimentalt, definite singular and plural sentimentale)

1. sentimental

Antonyms

• usentimental

References

• “sentimental” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French sentimental.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /s?.ti.m?.?ta?/
• Hyphenation: sen?ti?men?tal
• Rhymes: -aw

Adjective

sentimental m or f (plural sentimentais, comparable)

1. sentimental

Romanian

Etymology

From French sentimental

Adjective

sentimental m or n (feminine singular sentimental?, masculine plural sentimentali, feminine and neuter plural sentimentale)

1. sentimental

Declension

Related terms

• sentimentalism
• sentimentalitate

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sentimen?tal/, [s?n?.t?i.m?n??t?al]

Adjective

sentimental (plural sentimentales)

1. sentimental

Derived terms

• sentimentalidad
• sentimentalismo
• sentimentalmente
• valor sentimental

Related terms

• sentimiento

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passionatus, past participle of passionare (“to be affected with passion”); see passion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæ??n?t/, /?pæ??n?t/
• Hyphenation: pas?sion?ate

Adjective

passionate (comparative more passionate, superlative most passionate)

1. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
2. Fired with intense feeling.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93,^[1]

     Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms.

3. (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
   • 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, II. i. 544:

     She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, I. ii. 124:

     Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,

Synonyms

• (fired with intense feeling): ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid

Derived terms

• passionate friendship

Related terms

• passion
• passive
• passivity
• patience
• patient

Translations

Noun

passionate (plural passionates)

1. A passionate individual.

Verb

passionate (third-person singular simple present passionates, present participle passionating, simple past and past participle passionated)

1. (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].

2. (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, III. ii. 6:

     Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.

Further reading

• passionate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• passionate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Adjective

passi?n?te

1. vocative masculine singular of passi?n?tus

References

• passionate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Adjective

passionate

1. Alternative form of passionat